Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

By baricus The greatly anticipated release of the newest online game called Warhammer Online-"Age of Reckoning" on September 18/08 has the online gaming world buzzing. Is Warhammer Online really as great as all the hype or just a pauper to the prince of games, World of Warcraft?

By Wilhelm2451 Warhammer Online is still new.  There is time to correct these errors.  I fear, however, that they tyranny of the Tome of Knowledge, one of the most overrated features of the game, and its format restrictions will prevent any meaningful changes when it comes to the quest log. There are a lot of...

By Anthony Gallegos Anyone who's heard me on Legendary Thread or the late GFW Radio knows that I'm a huge Warhammer fan. I'm not talking about the recently released Warhammer Online, though - I mean, the tabletop war game. I've spent hours upon hours reading various army codices, painting miniatures, and cons...

By Earnest Cavalli Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning delivers on its promises, in a way that other World of Warcraft competitors don't. After Age of Conan promised so many innovative, intriguing additions to the massively multiplayer genre, then delivered on so few, no...

 - But Mythic obviously went to a lot of trouble to craft structure and nuance into the PvP game. Those familiar with Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot will see ... Warhammer Online 500000 Players Myth Games all 2 news articles

Review: Warhammer Online Lives Up to the HypeWired News - "The key to Warhammer Online," a friend said, is that "it's the first post-World of Warcraft MMO to exhibit the polish necessary to actually compete" with … ...

By Medeor With the release of our own Cody "Micajah" Bye's Warhammer Online First Impressions, the floodgates of video and print reviews have come spilling out. First there are the video clips. One review offers up a five out of five from G4 TV and then there is the always sun-glassed crew of Mythic bei...

Filed under: Fantasy, New titles, Reviews, Warhammer Online As we now enter the second full week of Warhammer Online's live service, reviews of the Mythic Entertainment title are continuing to be released. One analysis in particular you might want to check out is X-Play's review of the g...

By mattlow Allen 'Delsyn' Rausch, from GameSpy has released their review of the new Mythic Entertainment game, Warhammer Online. Giving the game an Outstanding 5 out of 5 stars. Mythic's MMO take on the Warhammer universe hits the ground running with an exceptional game built around social bonding...

The other main innovation in combat is the fact that there is collision detection, so you can’t just walk through other players (friend or foe). This is very interesting, particularly in siege warfare, as placement thus becomes far more important – particularly for tanks.

Warhammer Online has piqued my interest, and I'll post a longer commentary on it tomorrow probably. But first, one particular minor feature caught me eye and brought back some memories of a discussion I had online with a friend recently.

By Mike Fahey Warhammer is a pretty big name right now. With the launch of Mythic's epic MMORPG Warhammer Online and previous successes with the Warhammer 40K setting in the PC real-time strategy market, it makes sense for a console game to take advantage of the name recognition. Thus have Black Hole Gam...

PvE quests are your normal run of the mill MMORPG quests, however if you don’t want to do any of them, don’t, you don’t have too.   Don’t like RvR, join a normal server and just play the normal PvE quests.  The best part of Warhammer Online is that it doesn’t force you to do anything you don’t want...

By CamonDraconis Understand of course, that this game just launched and to truly gauge how good or bad an MMO is you have to play several months in. This review is going to go over basics of the game up to the end of Tier 2(since that is how far I am). ...

II. Player vs Player/Realm vs Realm III.  PvE / Grouping It’s obvious, but if you are a fan of PvE games, raiding instances, and the like, you will not enjoy Warhammer Online in the least.  There just isn’t enough PvE content to keep fans of item hunting and repeating bosses happy.

By Graev NOTE: This isn’t about Warhammer Online. Well, not much. I suppose it is time for another update on the state of the Graev. Several things have had my attention lately, such as Spore, Mercenaries 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Warhammer Online. I already discussed Mercs 2 and still enj...

By Ardwulf I am enjoying World RvR more than the scenarios, for reason I’m still in the process of pinning down. I’m sure I’ll talk about that at some point. I plan to keep doing it in Nordland until level 12, when I’ll turn into a chicken; hopefully as we push more characters into Tier 2 we’ll be up for an att...

By Graev Note: This is just a GRAEV update and isn’t about Warhammer Online, so just skip it if thats what you’re looking for. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a few things. Couple games, trying to come up with comic ideas, drawing said comic ideas, watching daytime TV, etc. You know, real important st...

By Michael Zenke Eurogamer (8/10): "Until it's been out in the wild a while, this extremely well-made and highly enjoyable MMO remains unproven. And it remains - until our first re-review, at least - one step short of true greatness."Kill Ten Rats (Buy): "If you would like a sequel to World of Warcraft with a...

By Ardwulf The standout feature of WAR is RvR; this is not something new, but it's a feature attractive enough to deserve a modern showcase, and WAR gives it that. The Tome of Knowledge is nice and the game’s biggest real innovation, Public Quests, are clever and fun, but neither is going to be a make-or...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Some readers preferred that I do a specific WAR review with a recommendation of whether to play it or not, so here is my take on that. As I've already talked enough about how the game works, this post is pure opinion. I don't do scores, but rather prefer relative comparisons: Warhammer Online:...

By ferv0r Quests and Public Quests Realm versus Realm Not much else to say. Oh, one thing I do highly appreciate is the fact that you get a reasonable amount of PvE experience for doing PvP. First, a couple disclaimers.  I only played to level 4 on a few characters.  I also realize that t

By Maggie Greene Most of the Rock, Paper, Shotgun guys recently posted their thoughts on the Warhammer Online closed beta; they were descended upon by WAR supporters (some rabid, some a little more even-tempered) for drawing more comparisons between WoW and WAR. After this little display of MMO chest th...

By Gabriel Runfeldt Filed under: World of Warcraft, Game mechanics, Warhammer Online, PvE, Player ConsequencesIt's no secret that modern MMO design has changed drastically in the years following World of Warcraft. The secret of the game's success has been the topic of discussion for every gaming blog and...

By Alex Taldren I’m back from my week’s vacation and there have been a lot of developments in the gaming community.  Warhammer Online hype seems to be peaking and, from what I’ve read from mainstream sites and bloggers alike, it seems to be shaping up to be a good MMO.  I plan on playing in the Fileplanet open b...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Probably the most acclaimed feature in all the post-NDA reports on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is public quests. Even the people who reported negatively on WAR usually had something nice to say about public quests. Pretty much everyone who tried public quests found them fun, and so...

By Snafzg Thanks for submitting all your questions! You’ve definitely kept me busy these past weeks! This has been filed under “Game Speculation” because we’re technically still in beta and things could change! Let’s get right down to it!  Here are your questions about Warhammer Online beta: Gu...

By Graev I suppose I should also toss my experiences into the mixed-bag of Warhammer Online Beta Impressions, at the very least to differentiate myself from my brother, so people can stop making comments that infer we both jump in fanboy rage at the same time. Graev can form his own opinions? Shocki...

By Cameron Sorden I’m not going to give you my long-winded impression of Warhammer Online because 1) I didn’t play it long enough in beta for a proper review, and 2) everyone on the internet has been exploding with that information since the NDA belatedly dropped this morning. I suggest you hit any one (or all...

By spinks Healers in particular are quickly singled out and have very few defenses other than healing themselves. I think this will be less of an issue once players learn how to work better with collision detection and tanks. 9. What was the beta experience like?

By spinks And if there’s one thing I learned from playing the beta, it is that a lot of other beta testers have been waiting years for a new MMO which integrates RvR (Mythic’s more sociable version of PvP) and PvE because people were taking part ...

By dmosbon Warhammer Online is very unique in its approach in a number of areas of MMO gameplay & it is those features that, at a closer look, have drawn me to pre-order the game. Tome of Knowledge aka ToK - A great way for the game to tell you your own WAR story?

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Tobold: Paul, you are creative director and lead designer for Mythic Entertainment's upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR). Is there any feature in WAR where you'd say, "this is mine, my idea, I thought of this"? Or is your job limited to having an influence on the ideas of othe...

By Rick I don't want to see any more WoW killer comments, or posts saying WAR ripped off WoW, or WoW ripped off the Warhammer IP before Mythic started developing the Warhammer IP, bla bla bla, yadda yadda. Mythic has their own design goals, and I think if you HAVE to directly compare it to any other MMO...

By Keen There have been dozens of known additions and changes to Warhammer Online over the past two months alone. Many players are concerned that the multitude of changes being made to the game in the 11th hour could possibly lead to either another delay or, in a worst case scenario, classes being l...

By Tipa Mythic cuts four classes and four cities from Warhammer Online. Hellgate: London debuts to poor response. Pirates of the Burning Sea needed a better integration of its elements and some changes to pacing. Vanguard was released too early. Age of Conan has a bunch of bugs and its end game is not a...

By Keen I woke up this morning and went straight to the computer to find out what Mark Jacobs’ news was going to be regarding a few major announcements for Warhammer Online. He dropped several bombs on the community today, that’s for sure. Punkbuster

By Keen Public Quests are absolutely revolutionary. They’re providing players a whole new way of playing, rewarding, and progressing their characters through the game. Massively’s Warhammer Online coverage over the past few days has been unparalleled by any website out there. The informatio...

By Snafzg I had the fine privilege of being asked by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios to review Warhammer: Condemned by Fire #1 and provide my readers with a sneak-peak of the first 5 pages (below the review). If this book title doesn’t ring a bell, it’s the upcoming BOOM! release that contains a chance to w...